Babies Born June 2006 #49

[New Dawn]

Jaspen just noticed that you are having a BOY congratulations

Now you with be just like that show with tim allen in it cant remember for the life of me the shows name....

[jaspen]

Thanks Tali - yeh just got back - hadn't had a chance to post in here yet but yeh its definitley a boy. I know the show - Home Improvement wasn't it???? Hope your DH has made it home or are the levels still up???? We haven't had this band of rain down here yet - thankfully.

[New Dawn]

Thats the one!!!!

Nope BHL still cant get through he is now going the loooong way back to innesfail then up to the tablelands and down through mareeba then down the karanda range too home I hope

[New Dawn]

Just thought I would let you know that BHL is now home Gee I am so ready to leave here...

[Roryrory]

Tali I am glad BHL made it home

Hope Marley is better!! I am so not looking forward to Flynn getting sick.

DH didn't make it into the MFB - and he doesn't get to find out WHERE in the interview he messed up. The application process has been going on for over a year now and all he gets is a "sorry, no luck this time, try again next time, and by the way we won;t give you individual feedback" email.

There is a silver lining though (well, several). I get to go back to work without worrying about the whole part time career drain (which really sucks) - I am thinking about going back 3 days in April and then 4 in May, with a view to working up to full time by the time Oliver is 6-7 months old, if not before. And we won't have to deal with the whole two-people-working-shift-change juggle, and being a SAHD is safer than being a firey!

Oh girls it feels like ages since I posted but two kids is really full on. They are both great and healthy but I have so little spare time now. I really forgot how tie-consuming a newborn can be. I don't want to wish any of this time away (he is SOOOO cute at the moment) but at the same time I can't wait til he will just sit on the floor and chew on a block or something, and let me clean the kitchen in peace!

Better go - work tomorrow. Keep up the good posts, girls, it makes me feel like I'm home in here

[Smoke Jaguar]

Oh, Rory, sorry about DH not getting in this time round Just in case he didn't know, the CFA is recruiting another two times this year (from memory) and the Airport Fire Brigade is holding another recruitment after the one on Thursday (tomorrow) - I know this cos a mate of mine is trying for all of them (she knows she'll be knocked back - there's no '3 strikes and you're out' with them like the Mets - and she's aiming to improve on her beep test each time till she gets in! The CFA interview is the same though, they won't tell you where you need to lift your game 0 ambos as well. Usually it's to do with how they perceive the team work attitude, any 'hero' complexes (I know one guy who keeps trying, keeps getting knocked back and he has such a hero complex that he can't see it himself!), OR, the big one these days is that they are looking for someone with a second language or from an ethnic background or female as a priority - if you have one of these and you say you're willing to start out in Footscray, apparently you're a step ahead already! It's hard yakka. A friend of ours got in last year, after trying for Airport and I think he was on his last attempt.
Ugh, I'm in 'firey' mode myself, just having got back from the station - we did a walk through of the police station, very interesting! But now I just want to find my nail file and get my nails short again...Oscar's done something with it...
Tali - so glad he's home for you now! Yeah, just move down to Melbourne already!!
Mel - how's Miss Marley now?
Bath - I told DP that when we have our new walls, I want the doors to have much higher handles ... although Oscar does the 'drag chair to be taller' thing now...
going to try to get to bed now...

[MelS]

Hi girls, well thankfully Miss M is back to her happy, smiling self. Took a while but she is there. Its so nice to see and hear her wicked laugh!

Jaspen - congratulations on boy #3, you are really outnumbered now! Great that everything is going well with the pregnancy.

Maya - you are a very organised girl! Campus day care is great. I'm sure Oscar will love it, new and fun environment and lots of kids to play with. Usually with sleep, they put them down together and depending on whether he will be in a room with a cot or a bed, they will help him go to sleep. Marley sleeps on a mattress, which she has never done before (she is used to her cot), but someone sits with her and pats/rubs her until she is asleep. She sometimes sleep for 90 mins which is not much but better than nothing. Make sure you tell us how his first day goes. Did you find your nail file?

Bath - I love having a clean floor! My friend made me a mix of bicard soda and bleach and it works wonders. I did my whole kitchen/family room recently and it was the cleanest I have ever seen. I also used it in the shower and wow, it gets everything off. How's your energy levels been? Whenever I see the hot weather coming, I think of you.

Tali - you must be so relieved DH is home. That would have been a very worrying time. But you did a great job keeping it all together. Counting down the days till you move? Flooding isn't a very common thing here, thankfully. How is Kai and May today? Lets hope the chicken pox don't an appearance.

Rory - I was lucky with Chelsea, she didn't get her first major illness till she was 2 1/2 and that was chicken pox. Sorry to hear DH didn't get in, makes you wonder who does get in???? It's nice to find a positive though, he makes such a good SAHD. Although sometimes going to work is less scary than being home some days LOL!!!! You'll find life gets easier with 2 once Ollie can sit and do those things. The baby stage is so time consuming, but I know what you mean about not wishing it away, thats so true. Are you enjoying being back at work?

Hi to everyone else. Best get back and do some work